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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on

the Study of Behavior Change

 

Behaviors such as overeating, smoking, drinking, physical inactivity, or excessive risk taking are often difficult to change, and changing such behaviors can lead to substantial improvements in well-being and health. We will explore factors involved in behavior change from a broad multidisciplinary perspective. This class provides a rare and exciting opportunity for students to meet leading scholars from different fields (psychology, economics, business, public health, neuroscience) on and off the Berkeley campus who will present their work as it relates to the study of behavior change. Topics of interest include emotion, motivation, cognition, decision-making, well-being, health, and social networks with a special developmental focus on adolescence and late life. Speakers will give a presentation that will be open to the public followed by an in-depth discussion limited to the class. Readings will include those related to each speaker’s work and that provide a background understanding of the topic. Students will prepare discussion questions for each speaker.

 

Announcements

 

  • Seminar speakers, dates, and locations are being finalized for Spring semester 2012.  

 

Seminar Schedule

 

  • January 23:  Welcome & Introduction 

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

 

  • January 30:  Robert W. Levenson, UC-Berkeley

          Title:  Emotional Functioning and Age: Some Surprising Changes

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:

Shiota, M. N., & Levenson, R. W. (2009). Effects of aging on experimentally instructed detached reappraisal, positive reappraisal, and emotional behavior suppression. Psychology and Aging, 24, 890-900. Shiota_Levenson_2009.pdf

Carstensen, L. L., Mikels, J. A., & Mather, M. (2006). Aging and the intersection of cognition, motivation, and emotion. In J. E. Birren & K. W. Schaie (2006). Handbook of the psychology of aging (6th ed., pp. 343-362). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. Carstensen_Mikels_Mather_2006.pdf

 

  • February 6:  Laurence Steinberg, Temple University

          Title:  TBA 

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

 

  • February 13:  Nancy Adler, UC-San Francisco

          Title:  TBA

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

 

  • February 27:  Samuel McClure, Stanford University

          Title:  TBA

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

 

  • Tuesday, March 6:  George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University

          Title:  TBA

          Location:  Wells Fargo Room, Haas School of Business

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

          *** Note, this talk will be held on a Tuesday

          rather than Monday and in a different location

 

  • March 12:  TBA

          Title:  TBA

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

 

  • March 19:  Don Moore, UC-Berkeley

          Title:  Is Overconfidence a Positive Illusion?

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers: 

          Moore, D. A. & Healy, P. J. (2008). The trouble with overconfidence. Psychological Review, 115, 502-517. Moore Healy 2008.pdf

Armor, D.A., & Taylor, S.E. (1998). Situated optimism: Specific outcome expectancies and self-regulation. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 30, pp. 309-379). New York: Academic Press.Armor Taylor 1998.pdf  

 

  • April 2:  Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University and New York University

          Title:  TBA

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

 

  • April 9:  Eduardo Andrade, UC-Berkeley 

          Title:  The Role of Emotion in Decision Making

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

 

  • April 16:  TBA

          Title:  TBA

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

 

  • April 23:  Discussion

          Location:  9 Durant Hall

          Time:  2-4 pm

          Related Papers:  TBA 

Behaviors such as overeating, smoking, drinking, physical inactivity, or excessive risk taking are often difficult to change, and changing such behaviors can lead to substantial improvements in well-being and health. We will explore factors involved in behavior change from a broad multidisciplinary perspective. This class provides a rare and exciting opportunity for students to meet leading scholars from different fields (psychology, economics, business, public health, neuroscience) on and off the Berkeley campus who will present their work as it relates to the study of behavior change. Topics of interest include emotion, motivation, cognition, decision-making, well-being, health, and social networks with a special developmental focus on adolescence and late life. Speakers will give a presentation that will be open to the public followed by an in-depth discussion limited to the class. Readings will include those related to each speaker’s work and that provide a background understanding of the topic. Students will prepare discussion questions for each speaker.

 

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